All,

I asked this a short time ago in a local programming echo, and was more or
less told to reboot. :) Is anyone aware of a more elegant sol'n?


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Anyone 'round here have any experience accessing drives via BIOS function 13,02?
An assignment at the college has us reading boot sectors, and analyzing the
information found in there.

If I run the program under plain ol' DOS, I haven't a problem. Whiz! Bang! and
there are all the dirty details of the diskette.

Try running the same program under a DOS session in OS/2, and success is
variable. Sometimes info is dropped, others it claims that floppies are
unreadable. It somehow managed to crash the DOS session once last night, What
really amuses me is that it appears to force a reset to *both* floppy drives,
whether I ask it to or not! :/

Anywho, if there's a work around that someone would be willing to share, I'd
appreciate it muchly!

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     {Don}



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